The Life Game Project LGP Vision & Purpose Games for Living - Harnessing the power of immersive games technology to foster the development of life skills and positive lifestyles throughout New Zealand communities. Creating a self-managing framework for the Auckland based IT industry and Educationalists to engage New Zealanders with today's immersive games experience to teach life skills in fun and sustainable ways. Owen will speak on the the use of online games as a means of influencing and educating people. Organisationally we take Wikipedia and the open source movement as our inspirations and are taking a community approach to our organisational development and the lessons that we are learning about volunteerism and collaboration.
Owen joined The Warehouse in November 2003 and as CIO is responsible for group information technology. McCall’s focus is on ensuring that all the IS systems for The Warehouse Group directly support the business strategy and that the technology investment provides clear and quantifiable benefit to the Group. McCall has spent 20 years in the IT industry and has gained a wide variety of experience in all elements of the systems lifecycle from IT strategy through to implementation and operations. Prior to joining The Warehouse Group, McCall was the Principal for Deloitte’s Outsourcing practice in Australia and New Zealand